#family

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families--only to find that by then their families were gone. ↗

— Larissa MacFarquhar

#clayton-christensen #family #long-term #personal-life #short-term

I was inspired to write Countdown 'til Daddy Comes Home when I searched for books to help my 4 year daughter cope with her father deploying to Afghanistan and found nothing that quite fit our situation. My book is not only a great story for kids it has real suggestions for parents on how to keep you family connected during deployments or frequent business travel. ↗

— Kristin Ayyar

#deployment #military-family #military-kids #miss-daddy #traveling-parent

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#problems #family

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#forgive #family

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on. ↗

— Yann Martel

#family #philosophy #death

I am so touched at how my family has embraced my situation. They don't even know this child, and they already love her. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#family

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#family

When you forget yesterday and embrace the new vision of what you are to become through the eyes of your best friend, you have found a new sister standing by the open door that was once closed in your heart. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#friendship #girlfriends #new-family #family

I think I rescued myself. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adventure-travel #family-relationships #siblings #family

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#family